Roller bearing



Sept. 8, 1936. T. l.. AROBINSON vROLLER BEARING Filed March 20, 1935 'f/omasl.11305227.50724u Patented Sept. 8, 1936 UNITED sTATEs PATENT OFFICE 2,053,534 momma BEARING Thomas L. nommen, valparaiso, Ina., assimito McGill Manufacturing Company, Valparaiso, Ind., a corporation of Indiana Application nach zo, 1935,' semi No. 11,971

` will be simple in construction, strong, durable and ,effective for its designed purpose;

To provide a rolleri bearing comprising a retainer of new and novel construction,` provided with pockets or openings in which the rollers are confined so as to turnireely, without retardation by frictional contact with the walls of the pockets in which they are coniined.-

In accordance with the invention, a bearing and the retainer thereof, embodying my invention and improvements, comprise the various features, combinations of features and details of con,- struction, hereinafter described and claimed.

Roller bearings of the type to which the invention relates are used extensively on the crank pin bearings of internal combustion engines, in which applications, for the most part, it is necessary to use split bearings.

In the accompanying drawing, in which the invention is shown as applied in use to a split roller bearing, y 1 Y Figure 1 is a sectional side view on the line I-I of Fig. 2 the anti-friction rollers being shown in side view;

Figure 2 is a sectional view. on the line 2--2 of Fig. l, with parts shown in elevation;

Figure 3 is a detached view of the retainer substantially similar to that shown in Fig. 1, with the anti-friction rollers removed; and

Figure 4 is an enlarged, fragment the line 44 of Fig. 3.

Describing the invention with reference to the drawing, in which, for purposes of clear and definite illustration, I have shown an anti-friction bearing-for purposes of convenient reference .lesignated as a `whole A-as applied in use to a.

crank pin I for driving the crank shaft, not shown, of an automobile or other ntemal combustion engine. Excepting as regards the construction of the bearing and the retainer thereof, designated as a whole a, the crank pin bearing shown in the drawing is of av usual type and will readily be understood by persons and mechanics familiar withzsuch devices from an examination of the drawing, without any extended description thereof inI detail. Briey, 2, 2' are the crank arms, in which respectively, opposite ends of the crank pin are recured, and 3 is the connecting rod of view on (CL 31N-179) the engine which is provided with a bearing 4,

for the crank pin, being operatively connected to the crank piu- I by the roller bearing A.

In accordance with the invention, a bearing A embodying my invention and improvements consists of bars 5, which are rigidly connected together in parallel, spaced relation both to eac other and to the axis of the retainer, by marginal flanges i, said bars and anges, preferably being formedvintegral with each other, as shown, see Fig. 4. The spaces or. pockets 1 between adjacent bars 5 are proportioned to receive the anti-friction rollers 8, with contemplated operating clearance,the relation' preferably being such that the retainer a will -p ilot on said rollers but with sufiicient clearance to permit them to turn freely without frictionalretardation by contact with the rollers 8. The length of the rollers 8 is substantially equal to that of the retainer a, being only suflciently shorter than said retainer, to provide operating clearance between the ends of said rollers and abutting surfaces between which the retainer may bemounted. Also, the dimension of the bars 5 radially of the retainer a, is less than the diameter of the anti-friction rollers, and the spaces or pockets 1 are so arranged that the rollers l, when in engagement with said spaces or pockets will project, radiali?, at both sides of the bars 5, in position to contact both with the crank pin I and the connecting rod bearing 4-which may exemplify any bearings to which the retainer is applied.

In the preferable construction shown, also, see particularly Figs. l and 3, the adjacent sides of adjacent bars 5 are arcuate, forming segments of circles described from a point in the axis of a roller l confined therein.

Also, as shown, the roller-- pockets 1 comprise short arcs 9 formed in the inner edges of the marginal flanges 6, which would confine the rollers 8 in the retainer a, even though the tween the outer edges oi adjacent bars 5 were sumciently wide to permit the rollers 8 to pass throughthe same.

Where.' as shown. opposite ends of the crank pin I are permanently secured in the crank-arms I, 2', itis obvious that both the crank pin bearing 4 in the connecting rod 3 'and the anti-friction bearing A will have to be assembled laterally or radially on the crank pin I, and to provideA for doing this. both said connecting rod bearing 4 and the anti-irictionybearing A are split bearings-the crank pin bearing 4lbelng split at III, as best shown in Fig. l, and the anti-friction spaces benot necessarily, the line of severance of the rel tainer a will be through the centers or axes of f both inwards and outwards.

diametrically opposite roller spaces or pockets 1. as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, so that the rollers l will maintain the separate segments of the retainer substantially in contemplated operating relation in the bearing'A. j

' While, for the reasons stated, the retainer a for the bearing A, is shown as a split bearing, my

invention contemplates equally, making said re-g An important advantage inherent inmyimproved bearing is that, due to the fact tliat'tlie length of the rollers 8 are the same as thev overall axial dimensio'n oi' the retainer a, less'operat- 2,053,584 as'will readily be understood. Preferably, butv ing clearance, all end thrust of the anti-friction rollers, in operation, produced by mlsalignment of the bearing due to dilection thereof, or other cause, will be absorbed by the ange plates at the ends of thecrank pin, thereby relieving said retainer from all stresses resulting from this cause, which would tend to produce distortion of the retainer, with resultant binding of the rollers and possible injury to the bearing.

I claim:

The improvements herein described and comprising a crank-pin, integral, radial ilanges at the ends of the crank pin, a co-operating connecting 'rod bearing having radially extending ends opposed to the crank-pin ilang'es, a roller bearing interposed between the crank pin and the connecting rod bearing, the rollers of the roller bearing having flat ends opposed to said ilanges and iitting loosely therebetween, a cage for said rollers comprising spacer bars forthe rollers, and thin circumferential flanges secured to the bars at their ends and extending radially outward between the crank-pin ilanges and the ends of the connecting rod bearing.

THOMAS L. ROBINSON. 

